About the Authors

Floor Harms

f.harms@erasmusmc.nl

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Laboratory of Experimental Anesthesiology, Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, ‘s-Gravendijkwal 230, 3015 CE Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Robert Jan Stolker

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Laboratory of Experimental Anesthesiology, Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, ‘s-Gravendijkwal 230, 3015 CE Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Egbert Mik

Affiliations Department of Anesthesiology, Laboratory of Experimental Anesthesiology, Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, ‘s-Gravendijkwal 230, 3015 CE Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Department of Intensive Care, Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, ‘s-Gravendijkwal 230, 3015 CE Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

Dr. E.G. Mik is founder and shareholder of Photonics Healthcare B.V., a company aimed at making the delayed fluorescence lifetime technology available to a broad public. Photonics Healthcare B.V. holds the exclusive licenses to several patents (“Methods and devices for assessment of mitochondrial function”, number EP 2318823 B1 and “Device and method for determining the oxygen concentration of a substance” number: EP 1904831 B1) regarding this technology, filed and owned by the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam and the Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, the Netherlands. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FH EGM. Performed the experiments: FH. Analyzed the data: FH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FH RJS. Wrote the paper: FH RJS EGM.